St. Junípero Serra and the Founding of the West - Crisis Magazine

St. Junípero Serra and the Founding of the West - Crisis Magazine: The story of the American Founding usually begins in the East. In that account, we speak of the war of independence, the establishment of the American republic, and of prominent founding fathers like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. But there is an older story involving other founding fathers which took place in the West. Nearly …